Pry tag decapper



Aug-30, 1932. R. E. REARDON 1 1,874,208

PRY TAG DECAPPER Filed May 29. 1929 INVENTOR:

. f' Q $W Paten ted Aug. 30, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE ROBERT EDWIN REARDON, OF COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA .PRY TAG DECAPIPER Application filed m 29, 1929. Serial in. mm.

. when unsealing is desired. Iattain the object of my invention by means of a simple, shoe-horn-like, pry tag of thin, soft sheet metal, adapted by formation, thinness and ductility to fit segmentally upon the bottle m head circumference. and hang upon the outer curve of the bottle lip between same andthe crown cap, being assembled between them. When the cap is sealed the upper end of the pry tag is crushed conformatively against H the outer curve of the lip bead without detriment to effective closure, and the lower end of the tag extends belowthe crown cap as a formation stiflened lever. The tag, as is evident, "may be used' as an advertising medium as well as a decapper. It is understood that I do not limit myself to the details of construction as shown herein, or the application of the device to the removal of crown caps, as other forms of closures may be removed by the device.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawin in which:

Figure 1 is a ormed blank of the pry tag n ready for use.

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Figure 2 is a sectional view as on a bottle head with crown cap lying upon it.

Figure 3 is an elevation as on a bottle head with cap sealed.

Figure 4 is a sectional view as under a sealed cap, on line aa of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is an elevation of a modified form of the tag with lower corners bent up as push flanges, shown as beneath a sealed cap.

Figure 6 is an elevation of a second modification of the tag, as a segment of a bottle head band with weakened lines. "The pry section is shown as partly broken outward and upward to decap.

Figure 7 is an elevation of a third modification with bottle neck gripping wings adapted to fold back for easy finger engagement.

Figure 8 is a partly formed blank of a fourth modification.

Figure 9 is an elevation of the fourth modification as on a bottle head with cap sealed.

My decapper tag may be made of any suitable thin, soft sheet metal, such, for instance,

as the tin of which crown caps and other closures are usually made, which may have any desired advertising matter printed, lithographed or embossed upon it. Very thin metal may be used, even down to .010" or less thickness, the width and formation of the tag being varied to suit. The preferred form of the pry tag, shown in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4, may be formed of sheet metal tape fed up through a forming device adjacent the bottle at capping position and there sheared off and held against the bottle, or

other receptacle, head until thecrown cap or other closure descends upon it'in the sealing operation. For ordinary. hand capper use the pry tag may be manually placed against the receptacle head with its horizontal top flange 1 bearing on the outer edge of the lip and its body 2 pendent therefrom, as in Fig. 2, and the crown cap or other closure then set loosely on the receptacle month, thus holding the tag in position pending the closure sealing operation.

The modified forms of the pry tag shown in Figs. 5-, 6, 7 and 9 may be fed to the receptacles as individually complete, by any appropriate mechanism, or the latter forms, 6, 7 and 9, set on bottles by hand as they pass along to the capper.

The modification shown in Fig. 5 has an approximately triangular shape, with the two lower corners 3, 3, bent up as flanges to be engaged by the users thumbs to push off the closure. Y Y

The modification shown in Fig. 6 is formed as a receptacle head band or hood to provide a sanitary cover for the heads of beverage bottles, which are often drunk from. It has weakened lines, 4, 4, which permit a pry segment to be broken out and pushed up as a decapper.

The modification shown in Fig. 7 is of the preferred strip type but has side wings, as 5,, at its lower end, which embrace a bottle neck and hold the tag in capping position.

Weakened lines, as 6, at the junction of said I wings and the tag body permit the ready folding back of the wings, thereby offering eas finger 1 'l he modifia tion shown in Fig. 9 is formed from a blank as indicated in Fig. 8. It has 5 a continuous band or ring extension 7 from the lower end of the pr tag 8, which loops the bottle neck as a bri 1e; holds the tag in capping position, and aids finger engagement for decapping. The verticallyextended and 10 divided ]11I10ti0l'l 9 of the said band and the tag base, permits elongation of the bridle to pull it up over the capped bottle head for use in decapping.

I claim:

15 1. A pry tag decapper of thin soft sheet material made rigid in part and having one end adapted to engage a receptacle lip and a closure in position between said lip and closure and conform to the pressure; of said closure upon said tag and lip, and provided with another end manually engageable.

2. A pry tag decapper of thin soft sheet material made rigid in part and having one end adapted to engage the outer side of a receptacle lip and the under side of a closure at a space from the inner edge of said lip in position between said 1i and closure and conform to the pressure 0 said closure upon the tag and lip, and provided with another end manually engageable.

' 3. A p tag decapper of thin soft sheet metal ma e rigid in part by initial formation and having one part adapted to engage a receptacle lip between said lip and a closure and further form and rigidify by conforming to the compression of said closure upon said tag and said lip, and provided with another part manually en ageable.

4. A pry tag decapper of thin soft sheet material made rigid in part and having one part adapted to engage a receptacle li at a space outward from the inner edge tl ereof in position between said lip and a closure by pressureof the said closure on said tag and lip, and provided with another part adapted for manual engagement and inscription display.

5. A pry tag decapper of thin soft sheet metal bent at one end to rest on a receptacle lip in position between said lip and a closure and adapted to withdraw outwardly on said lip by compression of the said closure upon said tag and lip, and another end of said tag manually engageable.

6. A pry tag decapper of thin soft sheet metal made rigid in part and formed in part to engage a receptacle head and rest on the li thereof at a space from the inner margin of said lip, and providedwith a part manually engageable.

ROBERT EDWIN REARDON. 

